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Example sentences for: dire

How can you use “dire” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

He even winces in pain a couple of times, and in the climax lets out a grunt that takes the Bond girl (the dire Denise Richards) aback.
His academic writings on how to interpret facial expressions have been used by lawyers to figure out which potential jurors to eject during voir dire and by gamblers to figure out the giveaway signs of a card player's bluff.
Sure, they couldn't resist a few salacious details here and there ("Carolyn was haunted by dire premonition!"
A: For heaven's sake, you made the same sort of dire predictions when we started charging for content a year ago.
They fear that insurers will fail to send the closest ambulance and deny care to dire cases.